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Thank you so much to the staff of Fringe for the support of our show and message!

Hello friends. As some of you have heard, our 2017 Capital Fringe show “Abortion Road Trip” has attracted some pretty nasty, sometimes aggressive anti-choice protestors.

They are not allowed into the Logan Fringe Arts Space, but they are stationed directly outside with megaphones and signs and have been aggressive towards audiences making their way to and from the space.

Here’s where we’re at right now:

1. Starting with the 11am performance on Saturday the 8th, Prometheus staff will be on site to escort people in and out of the Logan Fringe Arts Space before and after every show. At our Saturday show, you’ll recognize us by the red sashes across our shirts. We’re ordering vests now that we’ll wear at the later shows. We will post pictures of these soon so that you’ll know what to look for.

2. A few people have already volunteered to help escort audiences and visitors. Thank you so much for your quick response. Please email us at prometheusvolunteers@gmail.com and we can organize these efforts together.

3. Prometheus and Fringe both request that we all keep things civil and de-escalated. Please don’t engage with the protestors, even (especially) if they single you out. Ignoring them takes the wind out of their sails, and keeps things less disruptive for all of us.

We’ll be providing updates as the situation develops and as we get better organized. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email theatreprometheus@gmail.com or prometheusvolunteers@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We are so proud of “Abortion Road Trip.” We think its message is urgent, relevant, and needed – and the presence of these protestors only affirms our belief.

We chose this play because it’s time for a new narrative about abortion – a narrative that these protestors reject. Abortion is not shameful. It doesn’t have to be tragic. It doesn’t have to be “the most difficult choice a person can make.”

Sometimes it can be funny.

Sometimes it can be serious.

Sometimes the choice is easy, or nuanced, or exactly right.

Our power as artists lies in the choices we make about the stories we want to tell. We’re proud to be telling this one.

After a competitive application process, the Anacostia Arts Center has selected Theatre Prometheus for a Full Production Residency at their Box Theater!

With a grant from ARCH Development, Theatre Prometheus will use this residency to produce the world premiere of "Soldier Poet " by Darcy Parker Bruce, with Arabic translations by Esam Pasha.

Theatre Prometheus’ AAC Residency is partly funded by ARCH Development, the AAC’s parent organization that has been working in Anacostia since 1991. For the majority of its history, ARCH has focused on small-scale neighborhood business development and support.

In North Dakota, there is only one in-state facility that provides cancer treatment.

Because men are on average taller than women, some believe that they should pay more for healthcare.

Imagine how ridiculous it would be if any one of the above statements were true. Now imagine that they were all true, and had serious ramifications on the health, wealth, and happiness of our entire nation.

"It’s so interesting to watch how women can attack this work that has been written by and for men. If men knew how women thought and if women knew how men thought, this would be boring. But because we don’t understand each other completely, we bring a complex energy to the work, to the text, and that adds an extra layer of brilliance to the show."

"If you're going to make your own piece of art, you can't keep everything. It's a bit like a quilt: the pieces come from all three contexts, but you're not making three quilts, you're trying to make one...our goal was always how to use these things in the service of a production that is as alive and as meaningful as possible, to us, right now."

"They say theater isn't therapy, but in this case I disagree. I think this process was really intense and emotionally healing for the women who worked on it (I know it was for me), and that not only does that serve a deeper telling of the play, but is very much in the spirit of Joan's own project."

"With this show, I want people to feel the breadth of what is possible. I think there is freedom in articulating and hearing someone else articulate the struggles that you've experienced individually and collectively. It's affirming--yes, these struggles are real! No, you're not crazy!"